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<h1>edtFTPnet/Free</h1>
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<ol>
  <li><a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a></li>
  <li><a href="#Features">Features</a></li>
  <li><a href="#Examples">Examples</a></li>
  <li><a href="#Documentation">Documentation</a></li>
  <li><a href="#Licensing">Licensing</a></li>
  <li><a href="#Dependencies">Dependencies and Requirements</a></li>
  <li><a href="#Support">Support</a></li>
  <li><a href="#Products">Other Products</a></li>
  <li><a href="#Contact">Contact Information</a></li>
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<h2><a name="Introduction"></a>1. Introduction</h2>
<p><span style="font-style: italic;">edtFTPnet/Free</span> 
is one of the most popular .NET FTP client libraries available today.
Robust, fast and with an extensive API, it provides a solid foundation
for developers who require FTP functionality in their .NET applications.
Full source code is included.</p>
<p> This document provides an overview of the package and links
to documentation and examples.</p>

<h2><a name="Features"></a>2. Features</h2>
<p>edtFTPnet/Free's many features include:
<ul>
  <li>Rock-solid FTP transfers.</li>
  <li>Passive and active modes are supported (PASV and PORT).</li>
  <li>Resuming of interrupted binary transfers supported.</li>
  <li>Includes a fully fledged Visual Studio component, FTPConnection.</li>
  <li>Events for monitoring progress of data transfers.</li>
  <li>Compatible with .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0.</li>
  <li>Compatible with Mono 1.2.x</li>
</ul>

</p>

<h2><a name="Examples"></a>3. Examples</h2>
<p>Two examples are provided in the Examples directory. Both VB.NET and
C# examples are provided.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.enterprisedt.com/products/completeftp/overview.html">CompleteFTP</a> can be used as an FTP server on Windows. A trial
can be downloaded to run the examples against. Even when the trial expires it can be used on localhost.
</p>

<h2><a name="Documentation"></a>4. Documentation</h2>
<ul>
  <li> <a href="doc/manual/index.html">Developer's Guide</a></li>
  <li> <a href="doc/manual/api/index.html">API documentation (HTML)</a></li>
  <li> <a href="doc/install.html">Installing FTPConnection in Visual Studio.NET</a></li>
  <li> <a href="doc/RFC959.TXT">RFC 959</a></li>
</ul>

<h2><a name="Licensing"></a>5. Licensing</h2>
<p>edtFTPnet/Free is Open Source, licensed under the <a href="doc/LICENSE.TXT">GNU LGPL</a>. It is free for
both commercial and non-commercial use. You can also purchase <a href="http://www.enterprisedt.com/products/edtftpnet/purchase.html">unrestricted non-GPL licenses</a>.
</p>

<h2><a name="Dependencies"></a>6. Dependencies and Requirements</h2>
<ul>
  <li> edtFTPnet/Free runtime code is included in the <b><tt>edtFTPnet.dll</tt></b>
located in the <tt>bin</tt> directory.</li>
  <li> edtFTPnet/Free is designed to work for .NET 1.1 or greater.</li>
</ul>

<h2><a name="Support"></a>7. Support</h2>
<p> For support of edtFTPnet/Free, please post on our <a href="http://www.enterprisedt.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=6">user forums</a>.</p>

<h2><a name="Products"></a>8. Other products</h2>
<p>If you require <b>secure file transfers</b> or more advanced features, you may be interested in <a href="http://www.enterprisedt.com/products/edtftpnetpro/overview.html">edtFTPnet/PRO</a>,
an extension of edtFTPnet/Free. It includes all of the free features, but in addition supports:
<ul>
   <li>Secure FTP transfers via SFTP (FTP over SSH)</li>
   <li>Secure FTP transfers via FTPS (FTP over SSL)</li>
   <li>Seamless switching between FTP,SFTP and FTPS protocols</li>
   <li>directory transfers </li>
   <li>support for HTTP and SOCKS proxies</li>
   <li>asynchronous methods</li>
</ul>
</p>

<p>If a <b>secure file transfer server</b> is required, you may be interested in <a href="http://www.enterprisedt.com/products/completeftp/overview.html">CompleteFTP</a>.
It is a Windows secure file server, and supports
<ul>
   <li>Secure FTP transfers via SFTP (FTP over SSH)</li>
   <li>Secure FTP transfers via FTPS (FTP over SSL)</li>
   <li>HTTP and HTTPS</li>
   <li>SCP - secure copy</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>
It is also highly customizable, and supports enterprise features such as clustering.
</p>
<h2><a name="Contact"></a>9. Contact Information</h2>
<p> Enterprise Distributed Technologies is based in Brisbane, Australia.</p>
<p> Please e-mail <a href="mailto:sales@enterprisedt.com">sales@enterprisedt.com</a> for more information
about our <a href="http://www.enterprisedt.com/products.html">products</a>. </p>
<p>
 You can call us during office hours (8am-6pm Mon-Fri) in <a href="http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_AU-QLD.aspx" target="_blank">Brisbane, Australia (GMT+10)</a> on:
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	 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>+61 7 3117 0665</strong>
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You can fax us at:
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	 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>+61 7 3319 7399</strong>
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 Our address in Australia is:
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 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Enterprise Distributed Technologies Pty Ltd<BR>
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;P.O. Box 493<BR>
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mount Ommaney QLD 4074<BR>
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Australia
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